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Michelle Robinson-Hayes, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 10 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesGriefSelf esteemDepression
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Michelle Robinson-Hayes helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, relationship strain, addiction and depression. She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, career difficulties and coping with life changes. Michelle also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar, compassion fatigue and a wide range of other challenges including bereavement and caregiver stress.
Her style is warm and practical. She listens first and then helps clients figure out realistic steps for change.
Background and approach
Sessions combine conversational counselling with practical tools drawn from structured approaches. Michelle also uses hypnotherapy when appropriate and offers coaching for career and life transitions. Michelle trained and practised as a psychotherapeutic counsellor and hypnotherapist.
She is BACP accredited which appears as BACP and has run her own practice, The Listening Tree, for over eight years. She has taught counselling and hypnotherapy up to level 5 and supervises other counsellors and hypnotherapists. Her background includes senior management across corporate industries where she led teams, training and service delivery for more than 30 years.
That experience informs her practical focus on goal setting and problem solving in therapy. Michelle has also volunteered extensively in bereavement support, completing over 150 placement hours with a national grief charity. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that blends person-centred listening with goal-focused techniques.
Michelle draws on a variety of methods to suit each person’s needs and offers sessions that aim to be straightforward and useful from the first meeting.
How Michelle’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The counsellor follows the client’s lead and helps them make sense of feelings and choices, which is useful for anxiety, grief and self-esteem work.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and short tasks to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with depression, anxiety and coping with life changes.
Michelle will work with each person to find the right approach. She discusses goals and preferences, and then adapts methods together over time. That collaborative process helps decide whether conversational counselling, CBT tasks or hypnotherapy fits best.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer text. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules, different communication styles and for people located outside the therapist's immediate area.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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